Potential narrative ideas
Radiohead - The daily mail
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The entire video could be somebody coming to terms with their loss
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Their only connection to that person is the daily mail newsletter which thye got from the deceased
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They try to find different ways to overcome this loss but is unable until the end of the video when he finally manages to pick up the newsletter and that’s when we realise he has come to terms with his loss.
Lyrics
The moon is high up on a mountain
The lunatics have taken over the asylum
Waiting on the rapture
Singing, "We're here to keep your prices down
We'll feed you to the hounds
To the daily mail, to get up, together"
You made a pig's ear, you made a mistake
Paid off security and got through the gate
You got away with it but we lie in wait, eh
Eh, eh
Where's the truth what's the use
I'm hanging around lost and found
And when you're here innocent
Fat chance, no plan
No regard for human life
You'll keep time, you've no right
You're fast to lose, you will lose
You jumped the queue, you're back again
President for life, love of all
The flies in the sky, the beasts of the earth
The fish in the sea have lost command
Analysis
These few lines may be highlighting the corruption of the daily mail as it says "We'll feed you to the hounds to the daily, to get up, together". This could suggest that they almost want to defeat the daily mail to highlight its corruption.
"You made a pig's ear" this suggests that the government have made a mess of evrything as the term a "pig's ear" means to make a mess.
“where's the truth what's the use”, the government is always lying so what's the use of even hanging around.